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This week's reviews: Historically great story underserves viewers

By: Jared Rutecki

The Columbus Dispatch - August 16, 2013 10:35 AM

Inspired by a
Washington Post story by Columbus native Wil Haygood,
The Butler tells the story of the White House butler (played by Forest Whitaker) who
served under eight Presidents. The cast is a virtual assemblage of Oscar nominees and winners,
including Oprah Winfrey, Robin Williams, Cuba Gooding Jr., Jane Fonda and Vanessa Redgrave.

There is no doubt the cast is loaded with talent, and the story of
The Butler is amazing. Unfortunately, the scope of the story covered seems to be a little
bit too much to fit into the confines of a feature movie, according to critic Roger Moore.

"As a movie,
The Butler is ungainly. It covers too much too quickly, with clunky, pointless narration
and soap-opera-ish melodrama taking attention from the sweep of history," Moore said
in his
review.